Research

Research

In Progress:

Faithful Dissent: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media

Based on my dissertation research, this book is a historical and ethnographic study of politically progressive digital communities of post-evangelical feminists in the United States. Well-known authors and actively engaged readers co-created religious communities that challenged dominant evangelical ideologies using blogs, podcasts, and social media networks. Drawing on participant-observation at digital and in-person events, 75 semi-structured interviews, and textual examination of digital media, I demonstrate that digital and social media have enabled women to become religious leaders in online spaces. I argue such digital communities were both a haven away from the dominant evangelical public and spaces to formulate resistance to conservative evangelicalism. This project is under advance contract with Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles:

“Post-Evangelicalism, Ex-Evangelicalism, Progressive Evangelicalism,” Religion Compass (2026), 1-7.

“The Scandal of Rachel Held Evans’s Evangelical Mind,” Church History (2026): 1–25.

“Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004-2024,” Religion and American Culture 34, no 2 (2025), 200-232..

“A Calculated Attack on Clergy Abuse: Challenging Patriarchal Power at Willow Creek Community Church,” Theology & Sexuality 30, no 1(2024): 32-49.

Public Scholarship and Other Writing:

“Echoes of Exclusion,” Syndicate, October, 2025.

“Rachel Held Evans and the Specter of Scopes in Dayton,”Anxious Bench, July 18, 2025.

“Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media w/ Kelsey Hanson Woodruff,”The Classical Ideas Podcast, March 6, 2025.

“Christian Feminists From Abroad Confront US Sexual Politics,”Epicenter, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, November 20, 2024.